Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERTGrace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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